Portfolio insurance under a risk-measure constraint

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DOI10.1016/J.INSMATHECO.2011.05.009zbMATH Open1228.91061arXiv1102.4489OpenAlexW4298434486MaRDI QIDQ654812FDOQ654812


Authors: Carmine De Franco, Peter Tankov Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 December 2011

Published in: Insurance Mathematics \& Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the problem of portfolio insurance from the point of view of a fund manager, who guarantees to the investor that the portfolio value at maturity will be above a fixed threshold. If, at maturity, the portfolio value is below the guaranteed level, a third party will refund the investor up to the guarantee. In exchange for this protection, the third party imposes a limit on the risk exposure of the fund manager, in the form of a convex monetary risk measure. The fund manager therefore tries to maximize the investor's utility function subject to the risk measure constraint.We give a full solution to this nonconvex optimization problem in the complete market setting and show in particular that the choice of the risk measure is crucial for the optimal portfolio to exist. Explicit results are provided for the entropic risk measure (for which the optimal portfolio always exists) and for the class of spectral risk measures (for which the optimal portfolio may fail to exist in some cases).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4489




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